Entative britt be to thinking that as a hessure one or two large junk loads of Sick Chinese Subjects might be removed to the Benevolent Hospital at Canton under the following conditions;-
1) that the case of sickness had been reported to Police
2) that the Patient had applied through the hospital.
(3) that the Patient Expressed a desire to go to Canton –
12.
That the Doctors certified that the Patient was fit to be removed. 5) That the junks were properly provisioned, Equipped so as to ensure the Comfortable Conveyance of such patients to Canton.
22. Four small junks were sent down and towed by a Chinese steamer,
away
170 patients were sent on Friday the 14th and 15th.
Thursday
Their
The Consul in compliance with My Wishes sent a Doctor to examine and report upon the junks on arrival at Canton & I am glad to say that his report was satisfactory - Only Eight of them, as I am informed, died on the way out, and the remainder have been visited by the European doctors and
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are well and Comfortably housed.
23. The Insanitary condition of the Long Lung Glass works' hospital has thus ceased, and it has now been closed. In its stead the Tung Wah Hospital Capable of holding 140 patients has been opened. The management of it has been taken over to a much greater extent than in the Case of the Glass works by European Doctors and the internal Arrangements by European ladies and nurses, and the Conduct of the attendants.
24. It would be too much to say that the Chinese doctors are convinced that his treatment of disease is radically defective, but as our staff of medical men is about to be reinforced by two medical Officers sent down by Admiral Fremantle from Japan, and by two others whose services I have secured, we shall be in a position to assume Charge of nearly all the patients that were sent to the Several hospitals -
and
25. The Hospitals at present in existence are in
1) The Hygria for 40 patients.
2) Kennedy Town for 450
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